Ageing staff cohort threatens expansion
The proportion of university teachers aged over 50 is rising at an alarming rate, according to the Association for University Teachers. An analysis shows that the age profile has increased...
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Medical schools call for monitor
Leading figures in the Scottish medical Royal Colleges have called for the creation of a national body to investigate fraud and misconduct in biomedical research, writes Caroline Davis. More than...
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Middlesex to offer three semesters a year to international students
International students at Midd-lesex University are to be offered a three-semester year - and home students may be given the option if funding issues can be sorted out. Semester one exams will be...
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Quantum leap to combat shortage
A physics degree that requires neither physics nor mathematics A level could solve the chronic teacher shortage in physics, suggests a report this week. Institute of Physics president Sir Peter...
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E-flagship is scaled down
The e-university has slipped further behind schedule and conceded its launch next year will be small-scale. The delay comes after the e-university - announced by then education secretary David...
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Ucas stands by tariff system
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has defended its new tariff points system for entry qualifications in the face of a boycott by many Russell Group universities. The tariff sweeps up...
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Students to foot bill for curbs on bad landlords
Glasgow students are having to pick up the tab for a scheme intended to protect them from dodgy landlords. Under a programme introduced following Scotland's Houses in Multiple Occupation Order 2000,...
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£130m needed to bridge pay divide
Institutions are doing little to give female lecturers pay parity with men. Tony Tysome reports Universities have done nothing to close an £81 million gap between the pay of male and female academics...
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Whistleblowers: Glasgow resists court
Glasgow University is refusing to reveal the names of the referees it relied on when it declined to award a professorship to renowned transplant surgeon Rahul Jindal, despite two court orders that...
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Whistleblowers: AUT attacks new Hefce chief's record
Union leaders attacked Sir Howard Newby's record on equal opportunities this week as he prepared to take up his post as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The...
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Analysis: 'We want to set our own destiny'
Competition has forced ULH out of its Hull home. Alison Utley reports on its reincarnation and the gap left by its departure. The launch on Monday of the University of Lincoln is the outcome of some...
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In the news: Andrew Neil
St Andrews University had expanded its press office team to cope with the media interest in new student Prince William. But in this week's debacle over the intrusion by Prince Edward's Ardent...
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Of cakes and Allah
Authors Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have again demonstrated how much they differ. After spending years clashing over evolutionary science, the combative duo switched to commenting on the...
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Comrade Hodge?
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge injected a little old Labour into the party's annual conference in Brighton this week. Mrs Hodge told a Universities UK fringe meeting that the drive to widen...
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Sniffing out cheats
Last week's launch of The Science Book was marked by a question from the audience to astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees about the prevalence of fraud in science. Sir Martin insisted that cheating would...